What this publisher may be relied on for, and what it may not

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The two kinds of figure, and what each is good for

The first kind is a figure somebody else published and this publisher copied. A return to player, a stake range, a ceiling on a win, a duty written into a rule book: those arrive with a source and a claim number behind them, and the sentence spending one says where it came from. A reader who doubts such a figure can go and look, which is the only form of trust worth asking for.

The second kind is an assumption of this publisher’s own. A stake of ten pence a turn, a count of minutes spent at a form, a length of session: those are not measurements of anything and no page pretends they are. Each gets named again wherever it is spent, rather than being declared once high up the page and then used in silence for the next three thousand words.

There is no third kind. Nothing here is a test result, because nobody at this publisher has played anything, and nothing here is a score of this publisher’s own invention. What a card does is arithmetic, in public, on figures of the first kind and assumptions of the second.

The reel’s own quantities were all taken from their sources on a single day, which each card prints at its head, so nothing here is older than the date standing above it

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What moves after a card is written

What the machine publishes about itself moves slowly and visibly. A return is printed on a maker’s page and in the game’s own data, and when it changes the change is in both places where anybody can see it. That is why the arithmetic here is built on those figures rather than on anything a venue says.

What an offer says about itself moves whenever whoever wrote it decides. A play-through, a cap, a floor, an expiry: any of them can be different by the time a reader arrives, and none of them changes in a place a reader can watch. So the figure for an offer on a card is what offers of that shape stated when the card was written, and it is a worked example rather than a quotation of anybody’s current terms.

The practical consequence is small and worth stating plainly. Use a card to understand what a term of that kind does to money. Read the terms themselves, at the venue, for what that venue is asking today.

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What this publisher is not

Nothing is sold here and no money is taken here. There is nothing to register for and nowhere to type a name, as the page about what is known here sets out in full. Clicking out of a card does pass through this publisher’s own tracked address first, and the page about payment says what follows from that.

The operators behind the offers weighed on these cards hold no Great Britain licence, which every card says in its own words because it changes what the arithmetic can assume. A reader in Great Britain who wants a licensed operator wants a different kind of site from this one, and nobody below the age of eighteen has any business on these pages.

This publisher is not a lawyer, not a financial adviser and not a regulator, and nothing here is advice about what a particular person should do with their money. The page about method sets out how a figure gets onto a card, and the page about writing in sorts the subjects this publisher can answer from the ones only a venue or a regulator can.